On the difficulties for students to adhere to scrum on global software development projects: preliminary results

We present the 2011 version of the Global Software Development project that we run annually. Developers were distributed across three countries to develop mobile solutions targeting the theme of sustainability. They followed the Scrum process and used the IBM Rational Team Concert tool to support it. This study elicits the difficulties encountered by the students in adhering to Scrum in that particular context. We examined if the difficulties were due to the fact that developers were distributed across time, distance, and culture. We also studied the impact of the chosen tooling.